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Earlier Boomers owned stocks to feel like they owned part of a company, but -they never talked to the CEO, -never shaped the product, just held paper and hoped. Today you own an NFT and you are actually IN the community , discord with founders, voting on decisions, shaping what gets built. this is my @wardenprotocol NFT, and I am not just holding I am part of what team is building.

Two programmers at the next table were chatting, one said: "Now ZK is too competitive, whoever has the faster algorithm gets the funding." The other laughed and said: "There are plenty of algorithms out there, but the real deal is the company making chips—Cysic." I thought to myself: Is the crypto world starting to 'make chips' too? As a result, when I checked, this team called @cysic_xyz didn't go for the ZK algorithm but took a more hardcore approach—making ASIC chips to solve the ZK computing power bottleneck. It's like the wave of Bitcoin mining back in the day: CPU → GPU → ASIC, leveling up by defeating monsters; whoever masters the chips becomes the king of computing power. Their ZK chip is called C1, and its performance is terrifying—1.31 million Keccak calculations per second, 13 times faster than high-end GPUs. This isn't just bragging; it's laying the groundwork for the entire ZK ecosystem—"laying wires and building substations." But the most interesting part isn't the chip itself, but their "computing power NFT." They sliced the computing power of this entire set of chips into 29,000 Cube NFTs to sell to the community. Ordinary people like you and me don't need to spend money on mining machines; we can indirectly own ZK computing power— it's like back in the day when you didn't have to buy Bitmain's mining machines; you just needed to buy a "mining machine certificate" to get dividends. Isn't that interesting? This is called "democratization of computing power," forcibly turning a field that originally belonged to institutional players into a "ZK mining plan" that everyone can participate in. From an investment perspective, this logic is actually quite appealing: You're not betting on which ZK chain will win, but rather ambushing in the "ZK version of TSMC." Whether it's Polygon zkEVM, Scroll, or Starknet, as long as someone needs to generate proof, they have to come buy their computing power. However, that said, hardware isn't just about writing a few lines of code. From design to mass production takes a year and a half, and any yield issue could halt progress. But looking at their team's background, they are all seasoned chip makers, plus they've already raised $18 million, so they have some confidence. So while others are speculating on AI, Rollups, and zero-knowledge proofs, Cysic is quietly selling "shovels for the ZK era." I suddenly understood that saying— "When the tide goes out, what remains is always the shovel sellers."

Apps on @solana are now annualizing over $6B in fees. For context, Ethereum has around $5B. Yes, a chunk of this comes from speculative meme trading… But the scale is still impossible to ignore.